On 08/19/2011 08:13 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: > Really? Was is the effect of embedding paragraph direction in HTML? > What is the effect of the character that I posted? How do they differ? On the theoretical level, an RLE at the beginning of the paragraph means to embed an RTL run inside the paragraph. This means that you have a basically LTR paragraph with the actual text inside an RTL run. This goes to paragraph alignment - an LTR paragraph should be left aligned. You could claim that the paragraph auto-detection will do the rest, but if that were true, you could put an RLM instead of an RLE at the beginning of the paragraph.
There is also an hypothetical case that of unbalanced PDFs reverting the effect, but I'm only bringing it up as a side note, as I agree that for all practical purposes, this is irrelevant. On the practical level, many implementations (Windows' edit control included) do line breaks and only then BiDi. As a result, all state is lost at the end of the line, and the RLE only covers the first line of the paragraph. Since most mailers (thunderbird included) do explicit line breaking in text mode, this is not even necessarily a violation of the standard, as RLEs should be forgotten at the paragraph end character (a fact you rely on when you put an RLE at the beginning, but not a PDF at the end). Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd. http://www.lingnu.com _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
